First figure drawing of 2026! My ⚡︎⚡︎⚡︎neon era⚡︎⚡︎⚡︎ (nsfw) (Patreon)

Here we are, first Wednesday of the year, and back to drawing the nude body of a friend next to the clothed body of another friend!

Today we actually had one more body in our midst; one of the painters renting the back of my house (we haven't found an elegant way to put that yet) joined us, which was a delight! Charlotte is a super talented and dedicated oil painter entering the same kind of art world that Michael's been in for decades now, so it was fun to listen to them talk in a language I've always just heard from the sidelines.

But, back to the drawings, because I've got a horror movie to watch with Ryan tonight. Five minute poses!

For the long pose, I "drew the lines out," as I always do...

And then sketched this simple outline and decided it was just the energy I was looking for.

And then... failed to capture that energy on the final page.

Ah well. The energy I DID manage to capture was... bright colors, which I started out with, as you can see on the right.

I just received my first order of Nicker gouache, neon pink and teal green, two colors I can't mix from scratch in watercolor.

Idk guys, I am reeeeeally digging neon pink these days. I think this is gonna be my neon phase. I brought the new colors to figure drawing, and mixed them (along with a bit of white gouache at times) with the watercolors to kick up the brightness a notch.

I don't really know what I was expecting to finish with here, but at some point I decided to just paint each shape the color I saw it, exaggerated, and detached from its surrounding colors.

I really just took this last photo to compare to the scan, to see how different they look. Here's the scan!

Yeah, WAY better in the scan. Now you can tell that the neon was actually neon. Look at that outrageous underboob shadow!

I hope you're outraged.

This was a blast. Who knows where I'm going with these 90's-ass colors, but I hope you're along for the ride.

If you'd like the original for this weird dip into bright colors, it's up in the shop now! As always, it's 50% off for my beloved Art Nerds (that's you), which makes it only $40 - just use the discount code ARTNERD50. Enjoy!